Lelio Bonaccorso

Lelio Bonaccorso, was born in Messina on 08/02/1982, and is a comic artist and a teacher at the School of Comics in Messina and Palermo where he specialized in the year 2008.

Finally, with BeccoGiallo Publisher along with writer Marco Rizzo, he realized in 2009 " Peppino Impastato un giullare contro la Mafia ", also published in France by Ankama editions, and Holland by Sylvester Editions. The book won some important Italian prizes such as the "Premio Satira" Forte dei Marmi, 2009, the Journalistic Prize "Giancarlo Siani" in Naples in 2009, and "Boscarato Award" for best screenplay in Treviso.

In 2010 he penciled two graphic novels written by Rizzo: "Gli ultimi giorni di Marco Pantani" (published by Rizzoli/Lizard), a deep reconstruction of the last days of Italian racing cyclist champion Marco Pantani, and "Primo", a bizarre superhero/political fantasy settled in Italy during fascism and the Seventies. Later, in 2011, he worked with Marvel " Fear itself the homefront ", Vertigo comics on the anthology " The Unxeptable " and with the scenarist Marco Rizzo, he penciled two more books, " Que viva el Che Guevara " ( BeccoGiallo -Italy ; Panini - Spain ) and 51 illustration about " Gli Arancini di Montalbano " of Camilleri, published on the Gazzetta dello Sport.